Hint Hunt London: JM’s Office

By | March 20, 2019
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by Hint Hunt London (website)

72-76 Eversholt St, NW1 1BY

Central London

3-5 players

60 minutes

closed
A crime scene investigation where a private detective (JM) has found a dead body in his office and he has been wrongly accused of murder. The police have sealed off the office and you have managed to gain access to the crime scene.
You only have one hour to find the evidence and clues to wind up with case, prove JM’s innocence and find your way out of the locked room!
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Rated between 2.5 and 4 out of 5

based on ratings from 12 users
combined with 3 pro reviews

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Chris Metcalfe experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 5 Jul 2014 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
funnygreat hostingfamily friendly
Our very first escape room. Great fun and gave us the escape room bug 
StaceyF expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 2012 Team size: 3 Outcome: Failed 🙁
kman expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 10 May 2014 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
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first time I'd ever played an escape game.You think you're entering a "normal" office.Clever and really well hidden elements and puzzles.This game, ever since, has immersed me into the world of escape games.
Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 1 Jan 2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 51:16 Outcome: Successful escape!
jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
great hosting

First room I ever played. For the time this was simply brilliant. Lovely hosts too!

Charly expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

Didn't really enjoy this one

PurpleB expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: Jan 2015 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!

This was the first escape room I ever played and it started my love affair with them.  By today's standards this room is very ordinary with many of it's puzzles seeming a tad cliché. However, I personally think it deserves a bit of slack as it it was one of the first, if not the first, Escape Room in the UK and at that time the puzzles which now seem cliché were novel and exciting.

So this room gets a slightly higher rating than it would do if I had played it recently, but the PurpleB of 2015 thought it was great!

smudgepuss rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Outcome: Failed 🙁
Mike S expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Matthew Canner rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
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This was the very first escape room I did, where it all began. Naturally I loved it. It was also a very close escape, with our team getting out in the last few seconds.

In retrospect, it was a fairly old-fashioned style of room, with not a lot of theming, heavy use of locks and codes, and some rather over-used puzzle types - although to be fair, they're over-used because other rooms have copied them from Hint Hunt and other pioneers.

That said, it's still a good, well-designed room, and still ...

Outside the room Several months had passed since I'd last visited Hint Hunt, and, frankly, not much had changed. Same OK, but not inspiring venue. Same crowded waiting area. The hosts make you feel welcome though, so while it's not an amazing experience, it's perfectly passable. I'd come with two rooms' worth of people this time,
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They say you never forget your first time. And while that may be true, they never ask you to write 500 words on it three years after the fact. While I remember a little about the room, perhaps the most frustrating thing is that I don’t remember how I found out about it. At the time HintHunt were the only escape room in the entire country, and there was little to no press coverage, yet somehow I’d happened upon their website, and decided the idea was cool enough to be something I very much wanted to try. After convincing a couple of friends of the same, a new obsession was born.

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